It is a terrible irony that while some turn to abortion, so many others who cannot become parents cry out for children to adopt.

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There is in any case a terrible irony about the manner of Netscape's demise as an independent company, which goes to the heart of the antitrust case.

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Ms Spackman said the reality was that farmers were putting their livestock's welfare ahead of their own and there was a "terrible irony" that in extreme cases, farmers could not afford to put food on their own tables.

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But with terrible irony, the replacement housing itself gradually became a blighted locus of social problems.

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